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Wed, 13 Dec 2017 17:12:37 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.3Copyright 2015 Midwest Journal Press. All Rights ReservedDr. Robert C. WorstellSince I've been self-publishing and blogging for over a decade now, it's only right that you should benefit from all the hard knocks, scraped pride, and quiet cussing I've had to do in order to figure this all out.
With over a dozen-dozen books published, it's pretty simple now for me to write, edit, and publish books.
The next case to crack is getting them to sell better.
If you're interested in some extra passive income every month, maybe there is something here for you as well.
Join me on this journey...noCopyright 2015 Midwest Journal Press. All Rights Reservedpublishing,self,publishing,books,ebooks,editing,writing,marketingArts/Literaturerobertworstell@midwestjournalpress.comDr. Robert C. Worstellpublishing,self,publishing,books,ebooks,editing,writing,marketingHow-to's, Reviews, and Guides to Help You Get Your Books Selling Better.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gifSome Rights Reservedmidwestjournalpress/SellingBooksOnlinehttps://feedburner.google.comHow Stories Affect Your Life – and Explain Everythinghttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/midwestjournalpress/SellingBooksOnline/~3/9wQD8BkeA9M/
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http://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/4-simple-author-models-use-ultimate-success/#respondSat, 28 Oct 2017 10:52:55 +0000robertworstell@midwestjournalpress.com (Dr. Robert C. Worstell)http://livesensical.com/?post_type=podcast&p=10598
[Hey - thanks for finding this podcast. When you visit the site, you can read and download the full transcript...]]]>http://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/4-simple-author-models-use-ultimate-success/feed/0(Download this audio – Click here.) There are four basic journey-choices you can make to get all the success you want as an author. Some of these are known, some can be observed. At least one isn’t obvious at all. That last one only came up recently in trying to explain some mystery successes I’d [...]NoNo9:51Robert C. Worstellbusiness, choice, goal achievement, model, problem solving, self-publishing, success(Download this audio &#8211; Click here.) There are four basic journey-choices you can make to get all the success you want as an author. Some of these are known, some can be observed. At least one isn&#8217;t obvious at all. That last one only came up rehttp://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/4-simple-author-models-use-ultimate-success/http://livesensical.com/2017014-FourTypesOfModelsForAuthorSuccess.mp3?podcast_id=10598Exploding Sales Funnel Fraudhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/midwestjournalpress/SellingBooksOnline/~3/3YrNrjTQJW4/
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[Hey - thanks for finding this podcast. When you visit the site, you can read and download the full transcript...]]]>http://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/exploding-sales-funnel-fraud/feed/0How to Resolve and Expand Your Audience Out Of Trust The core value any online commerce runs on is trust. Yet business schools don t teach this. They are instead given all sorts of models to use which take them away from why they are there to begin with. A business is a ongoing exchange of [...]NoNo9:31Robert C. Worstellaudience, self-publsihing, social media, trustHow to Resolve and Expand Your Audience Out Of Trust The core value any online commerce runs on is trust. Yet business schools don t teach this. They are instead given all sorts of models to use which take them away from why they are there to begin with. http://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/exploding-sales-funnel-fraud/http://livesensical.com/20160416-POD-Sales-Funnel-Fraud.mp3?podcast_id=9515How to Shift into Online Business Gears You Probably Don’t Know Existhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/midwestjournalpress/SellingBooksOnline/~3/8SIG17BdMXE/
http://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/shift-online-business-gears-probably-dont-know-exist/#respondSat, 16 Sep 2017 10:10:53 +0000robertworstell@midwestjournalpress.com (Dr. Robert C. Worstell)http://livesensical.com/?post_type=podcast&p=9509
[Hey - thanks for finding this podcast. When you visit the site, you can read and download the full transcript...]]]>http://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/shift-online-business-gears-probably-dont-know-exist/feed/0Imagine that you had a car that only had two speeds – reverse, and low. Wouldn’t that be frustrating? You’d probably be able to go faster backwards than you could forwards. Yet this is the scene that most businesses have. Because people aren’t taught the system which runs businesses. I should know. I’ve been hard [...]NoNo10:25Robert C. Worstellbusiness, entrepreneur, promotion, self-publishingImagine that you had a car that only had two speeds &#8211; reverse, and low. Wouldn&#8217;t that be frustrating? You&#8217;d probably be able to go faster backwards than you could forwards. Yet this is the scene that most businesses have. Because people http://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/shift-online-business-gears-probably-dont-know-exist/http://livesensical.com/20160416-SBO-4-Missing-Gears.mp3?podcast_id=9509How to Write Less and Profit More: A Rich Adventure In Short Read Kindle Publishinghttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/midwestjournalpress/SellingBooksOnline/~3/CRFl3iL7oG4/
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[Hey - thanks for finding this podcast. When you visit the site, you can read and download the full transcript...]]]>http://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/write-less-profit-more-rich-adventure/feed/0Can you actually write less and profit more? Introduction Deep in the heart of the ever-growing Amazon Kindle jungle, there’s a profitable under-served market which is not easily discovered. It sits in a clearing by itself, much like a massive stone temple rising above the forest. A temple with some gold-filled rooms. Just my kind [...]NoNo22:47Robert C. WorstellCan you actually write less and profit more? Introduction Deep in the heart of the ever-growing Amazon Kindle jungle, there&#8217;s a profitable under-served market which is not easily discovered. It sits in a clearing by itself, much like a massive stonepublishing,self,publishing,books,ebooks,editing,writing,marketinghttp://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/write-less-profit-more-rich-adventure/http://livesensical.com/20160120-ShortReads.mp3?podcast_id=8364The Beginner’s Book Launch – How to Survive and Prosperhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/midwestjournalpress/SellingBooksOnline/~3/7Z54UWVmIXk/
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[Hey - thanks for finding this podcast. When you visit the site, you can read and download the full transcript...]]]>http://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/beginners-book-launch-survive-prosper/feed/0The Beginner’s Book Launch – How to Survive and Prosper It’s time I collated all the material on book launches to sort out how to do this and give myself a plan I can follow. The biggest problem with book launches is that they are either undocumented at the beginning stages, or don’t really tell [...]NoNo14:47Robert C. Worstellbook, book launch, income, list, self-publishingThe Beginner&#8217;s Book Launch &#8211; How to Survive and Prosper It&#8217;s time I collated all the material on book launches to sort out how to do this and give myself a plan I can follow. The biggest problem with book launches is that they are eitherhttp://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/beginners-book-launch-survive-prosper/http://livesensical.com/TheBeginnersBookLaunch-HowtoSurviveandProsper2.mp3?podcast_id=9721Beyond the eBook: More, Bigger Self-Publishing Profitshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/midwestjournalpress/SellingBooksOnline/~3/VYS6R5sd-P0/
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[Hey - thanks for finding this podcast. When you visit the site, you can read and download the full transcript...]]]>http://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/beyond-ebook-bigger-self-publishing-profits/feed/0Missed Profits Following Conventional Wisdom Conventional Wisdom (which is usually 95% wrong) says you should be happy with your ebooks and how they are selling. The problem with that logic is that the biggest sellers aren’t doing that. The biggest sellers make more income from hardcopy sales than ebooks. Traditional publishers know this, even though [...]NoNo14:53Robert C. Worstellcreative, ebook, publishing, sales, solutionsMissed Profits Following Conventional Wisdom Conventional Wisdom (which is usually 95% wrong) says you should be happy with your ebooks and how they are selling. The problem with that logic is that the biggest sellers aren&#8217;t doing that. The biggest http://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/beyond-ebook-bigger-self-publishing-profits/http://livesensical.com/20160216-EbooksToPaperbacks.mp3?podcast_id=8563A Simple Marketing Strategy for Beginning Authorshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/midwestjournalpress/SellingBooksOnline/~3/1ULSlD_LLN4/
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[Hey - thanks for finding this podcast. When you visit the site, you can read and download the full transcript...]]]>http://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/simple-marketing-strategy-beginning-authors/feed/0A Simple Marketing Strategy for Beginning Authors It came to me as a simple way to leverage all your books and explain the three-book marketing system others have alluded to. This just puts some muscle on that skeleton – and it only came to view once the study of courses was complete. Elsewhere, it’s been [...]NoNo9:50Robert C. Worstellauthor, book, self-publishing, strategyA Simple Marketing Strategy for Beginning Authors It came to me as a simple way to leverage all your books and explain the three-book marketing system others have alluded to. This just puts some muscle on that skeleton &#8211; and it only came to view onchttp://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/simple-marketing-strategy-beginning-authors/http://livesensical.com/ASimpleMarketingStrategyforBeginningAuthors2.mp3?podcast_id=9718Self-Publishing Secrets Every Author Should Knowhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/midwestjournalpress/SellingBooksOnline/~3/6guujtIQo0s/
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[Hey - thanks for finding this podcast. When you visit the site, you can read and download the full transcript...]]]>http://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/self-publishing-secrets-authors-know/feed/0Self-Publishing Secrets Every Author Should Know I stumbled across these while researching and testing. I haven’t seen them anywhere else, and they they are extremely practical ideas. First, You Have to Change Your Thinking 1. Authors are Producers. They generate “books-as-containers,” creating all possible versions of that title. Leverage is in multiple versions, as well [...]NoNo8:03Robert C. Worstellcourse, leverage, secret, self-publishingSelf-Publishing Secrets Every Author Should Know I stumbled across these while researching and testing. I haven&#8217;t seen them anywhere else, and they they are extremely practical ideas. First, You Have to Change Your Thinking 1. Authors are Producers.http://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/self-publishing-secrets-authors-know/http://livesensical.com/Self-PublishingSecretsEveryAuthorShouldKnow.mp3?podcast_id=9709Courses – The Final Frontier of Book Publishinghttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/midwestjournalpress/SellingBooksOnline/~3/tAv6WXAXCCY/
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[Hey - thanks for finding this podcast. When you visit the site, you can read and download the full transcript...]]]>http://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/courses-final-frontier-book-publishing/feed/0Courses – The Final Frontier of Book Publishing To boldly publish where few authors have gone before… Most people have heard and swallowed the hype that ebooks are all there is to self-publishing, that making 6-figures with a few Kindle ebooks is the trophy every player wants to walk away with. Unfortunately, that’s all but [...]NoNo11:26Robert C. Worstellauthor, course, final frontier, self-publishingCourses &#8211; The Final Frontier of Book Publishing To boldly publish where few authors have gone before&#8230; Most people have heard and swallowed the hype that ebooks are all there is to self-publishing, that making 6-figures with a few Kindle ebookshttp://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/courses-final-frontier-book-publishing/http://livesensical.com/CoursesTheFinalFrontierofBookPublishing.mp3?podcast_id=9707Hub and Spoke Marketing For Bookshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/midwestjournalpress/SellingBooksOnline/~3/PonF1P7T1E4/
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[Hey - thanks for finding this podcast. When you visit the site, you can read and download the full transcript...]]]>http://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/hub-spoke-marketing-books/feed/0Hub and Spoke Marketing For Books On tallying up all the distributors I’ve been able to find, one point emerged: there are distributors at every level and for every version of your book, who want to promote your book for free. That is remarkable, as it shows you can get paid for every type of [...]NoNo6:36Robert C. Worstellhub and spoke, marketing, sales funnel, self-publishingHub and Spoke Marketing For Books On tallying up all the distributors I&#8217;ve been able to find, one point emerged: there are distributors at every level and for every version of your book, who want to promote your book for free. That is remarkable, ashttp://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/hub-spoke-marketing-books/http://livesensical.com/HubandSpokeMarketingForBooks.mp3?podcast_id=9680The Care and Feeding of Book Distributorshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/midwestjournalpress/SellingBooksOnline/~3/oMOwF10DMkU/
http://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/care-feeding-book-distributors/#respondSat, 27 May 2017 10:07:53 +0000robertworstell@midwestjournalpress.com (Dr. Robert C. Worstell)http://livesensical.com/?post_type=podcast&p=9678
[Hey - thanks for finding this podcast. When you visit the site, you can read and download the full transcript...]]]>http://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/care-feeding-book-distributors/feed/0The Care and Feeding of Book Distributors Like the first rule of publishing, that books are containers of ideas (and not one set format) book distributors have to be studied with the idea they are really just paid lead generators with their own buying audiences. While you feed the distributors with what they want (or [...]NoNo15:51Robert C. WorstellAudiobook, book distributor, course, ebook, hardback, marketing, paperback, self-publishingThe Care and Feeding of Book Distributors Like the first rule of publishing, that books are containers of ideas (and not one set format) book distributors have to be studied with the idea they are really just paid lead generators with their own buying audhttp://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/care-feeding-book-distributors/http://livesensical.com/TheCareandFeedingofBookDistributors.mp3?podcast_id=9678Got Your Ears On? Here’s Great Audiobook News…http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/midwestjournalpress/SellingBooksOnline/~3/iUzn9FVBDR0/
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[Hey - thanks for finding this podcast. When you visit the site, you can read and download the full transcript...]]]>http://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/got-ears-heres-great-audiobook-news/feed/9Got Your Ears On? Here’s Great Audiobook News… What changes a couple of years make… There is finally an alternative to ACX, which allows an actual improvement in audiobook quality and payment to authors/talent. There is a caustic critique of ACX/Audible which recommends only CDBaby. [https://janefriedman.com/acx-alternative-2/ ] In this, you are using CDBaby to reach [...]NoNo6:00Robert C. WorstellAudiobook, authors republic, podcasting, self-publishingGot Your Ears On? Here&#8217;s Great Audiobook News&#8230; What changes a couple of years make&#8230; There is finally an alternative to ACX, which allows an actual improvement in audiobook quality and payment to authors/talent. There is a caustic critiquhttp://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/got-ears-heres-great-audiobook-news/http://livesensical.com/20140427-GotYourEarsOnHeresGreatAudiobookNews.mp3?podcast_id=9676BitTorrent Bundles Becomes the Ultimate Book Distributorhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/midwestjournalpress/SellingBooksOnline/~3/pNGfLNaUyQU/
http://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/bittorrent-bundles-becomes-ultimate-book-distributor/#respondSat, 22 Apr 2017 10:00:07 +0000robertworstell@midwestjournalpress.com (Dr. Robert C. Worstell)http://livesensical.com/?post_type=podcast&p=9667
[Hey - thanks for finding this podcast. When you visit the site, you can read and download the full transcript...]]]>http://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/bittorrent-bundles-becomes-ultimate-book-distributor/feed/0BitTorrent Bundles Becomes the Ultimate Book Distributor I’ve spent some time discussing (and dissing) Tim Ferris for having to promote his work on BitTorrent because he published through CreateSpace instead of Lulu. But you can’t fault the results. As a note, we don’t know how much he spent on promotion to get that. Which means [...]NoNo6:46Robert C. Worstellbittorrent, bundle, distributor, ebook, self-publishingBitTorrent Bundles Becomes the Ultimate Book Distributor I&#8217;ve spent some time discussing (and dissing) Tim Ferris for having to promote his work on BitTorrent because he published through CreateSpace instead of Lulu. But you can&#8217;t fault the rehttp://livesensical.com/podcast/selling-books-online/bittorrent-bundles-becomes-ultimate-book-distributor/http://livesensical.com/20140427-BitTorrentBundlesBecomestheUltimateBookDistributor.mp3?podcast_id=9667Dr. Robert C. WorstellnonadultHow-to's, Reviews, and Guides to Help You Get Your Books Selling Better.